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   Daphne Preston-Kendal (dpk@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 06:09:50 JST Daphne Preston-Kendal

   Unix time is *not* the number of seconds since 1 January 1970.

   No, it’s not because of leap seconds, although that’s part of it.

   It’s because from 1970 to 1972, there were two different definitions of a second. UTC seconds were longer than SI seconds.

   Unix time is actually the number of seconds since 1972, plus 6,307,200 seconds, minus leap seconds.

   If you subtract those 6,307,200 seconds, you do not get exactly back to what people in 1970 called midnight 1 January.

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   Steven Bodzin bike & subscribe (stevenbodzin@thepit.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 17:04:51 JST Steven Bodzin bike & subscribe

   One of the many awful results of the Balkan wars and genocide of the 1990s was the spread of a racist term: "ethnic cleansing."

   No one should use it.

   It implies that the victims are not just dirty, but dirt. It forces a listener to figure that out in order for the term to make sense. That forces the listener's own brain to make a racist connection, making it harder to fight back against the insult.

   It was used ironically, but now people just say it. Don't

   The term is genocide.

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   Robert R. (iloveamericanews@noauthority.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 05:13:32 JST Robert R.

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   @Lorelai

   It was really cool. Alex Jones has shared quite a few of my posts.

   My first video to get 1 million views was because Alex Jones shared it.

   It was this video of Kamala Harris kissing her husband with both of them wearing masks.

   1.7 million views and counting.

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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 20:48:30 JST clacke

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   Still waiting for anyone in the office or any visiting interviewees to comment on it.

   It took some of them two years to discover and comment on the fact that my mug, thermos, my usual office pants and half of the shirts I would wear to the office were all pink, so I'm waiting patiently.

   @RussSharek @krusynth @docpop @wcbdata @vkc

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   Cleo Menezes Jr. :verified: (cleomenezesjr@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 11:48:22 JST Cleo Menezes Jr. :verified:

   Since #Neovide arrived at #Flathub, I spent the day working using it.

   It's definitely beautiful! It's eye candy, there's just one problem: I couldn't focus on my work because of the cursor and scroll animation. 🤣 🤣

   I went back to using the good old terminal since I won't be able to deal with it.

   #Neovim

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   Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 23:36:13 JST Eaton

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   @SwiftOnSecurity it’s an absolutely insufferably “podcast guy” kind of narrative but Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is so closely related to these themes for me; curious if you’ve read it.

   It touches on both the pursuit of “quality” as an inherent elegant match between the tool and the task, and the poisonous “freshman’s disease” of learning enough to be frustrated and stalking off to change the world without studying the insights of those who’ve gone before.